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- Thanks to Citizens, Cartagena will promote measures to help those affected by inflammatory bowel disease, create an Observatory of Sports and Physical Activity, promote actions to control agricultural burning outdoors, join the Spanish Association of Parks and Gardens And will study to present the candidacy of the city to be Spanish Capital of Gastronomy in 2018

The Municipal Citizens Group has presented up to nine initiatives in the municipal plenary today, and has obtained the approval of its five motions.

Approved Motions

Cartagena will be part of the Association of Parks and Public Gardens

Cs Cartagena has obtained the support of the municipal council so that the City Council adheres to the Spanish Association of Parks and Public Gardens (AEPJP) which, along with other entities, has published a decalogue of 'Park 10', with rules on facilities and furniture In these public spaces.

The motion, according to the Citizens spokesman in Cartagena, Manuel Padín, serves to "continue to alert the state of abandonment of many children's parks in Cartagena, but also to ensure that Cartagena benefits from the guidelines and advice for the design and maintenance it offers The network in these environments that must be in perfect conditions of safety and healthiness for the use of the smallest.

The City will control unauthorized agricultural burning

The orange formation has submitted a motion, approved by all municipal groups except for the Popular Party, so that the municipal government adopts, within the framework of its powers, the necessary prevention and protection measures for the population affected by the agricultural fires in Cartagena, especially to the areas that have recently suffered these incidents in Isla Plana and La Azohía, and to study and promote the use of alternative techniques to the burning for the management of this waste, such as the placement of storage containers in strategic places .

On the other hand, the Citizens' Group has also requested that the Ministry of Water, Agriculture and Environment be urged to tighten the requirements for the granting of permits for the burning and treatment of agricultural residues and to develop a new authorization model Which includes a code of good practice.

Finally, Citizens has got the City Council to promote a project to create a recycling plant for agricultural waste in order to make their use profitable.

The Council of Commerce will study that Cartagena is the Spanish Capital of Gastronomy

The Plenary has also endorsed the initiative of Citizens to raise to the Municipal Council of Commerce the proposal that Cartagena prepare its candidacy to be "Spanish Capital of Gastronomy" in the next edition.

The Citizens' spokesman said that "Citizens are sure that if we succeed, the municipality would become the fashionable destination for gastronomy, would have an important presence in the national media, we would become part of the network of gastrociudades, attract a More tourists would increase consumption in hotels, restaurants and shops, new packages of gastronomic destination would be generated and a large number of activities would be programmed that would dynamize and benefit the entire municipality.

Cs gets plenary to approve measures to help those affected by IBD

Citizens has got the plenary to approve a battery of measures for the City Council to promote and defend the inclusion of Inflammatory Bowel Disease in a list of Disabilities Diseases, and to promote the development of outreach activities and awareness of the disease in Cartagena on All on the occasion of the World Day of Inflammatory Bowel Disease (May 19).

The citizens' motion includes the creation of a working table with members of ACCU Murcia, which includes health professionals from the municipality, associations of hoteliers and merchants, responsible for the Local Police and Civil Guard, and representatives of the sector of the Public transport to sign a collaboration agreement to achieve some objectives, including issuing a card or patient identification card that allows the priority use of some public spaces according to their needs.

Cartagena will have an Observatory of Sport and Physical Activity

The Municipal Citizens' Group has also succeeded in enabling the City Council of Cartagena to set up a "Observatory of Sport and Physical Activity in Cartagena", and to explore options to reach more collaboration agreements with the universities in this area. matter.

Councilor Alfredo Nieto has defended that this observatory "will have among its objectives to analyze the sporting reality of Cartagena from a multidisciplinary perspective, study the possibilities to apply various municipal policies in this field, coordinate programs and activities related to sports and facilitate the exchange Of information among other observatories of the sport in Spain, in order to be able to contrast our reality with other cities and communities ".

Questions

Commission for the Execution of Plenum Agreements

The Council of Citizens have once again asked in plenary when the local Government intends to convene the first operational session of the Commission for Execution of Plenary Agreements.

On March 9, more than a year after the approval of the motion of this Municipal Group, this Commission was finally set up to control the status and level of implementation of the initiatives approved in the Plenary.

The Councilor for Transparency, María José Soler, has responded that will be called imminently, next May 9.

The councilor has justified the delay by the saturation of work of the Secretary of the Plenary that prevented to deliver a report requested in the constitution of the Commission.

Castle of the Watchtower

Councilwoman Ana Rama has asked several questions to know what the local government is doing to recover the Castillo de la Atalaya, after acquiring the property more than ten months ago.

Councilor for Heritage, Ricardo Segado, has responded by saying that progress is being made, but he has not responded if there is a plan to obtain subsidies, nor did he want to clarify what heading the City Council has destined this year to consolidate and protect this heritage.

Citizen spokesman Manuel Padín has asked about the works that remained pending at the end of last year, and that, some of them, have not even been tendered in 2017. Manuel Padín has also been interested in knowing what state they are in The talks with the Autonomous Community for the settlement and works on regional roads that have not yet been undertaken, such as the road to La Asomada, Canteras or Molinos Marfagones.

As for the pending works, Finance Minister Isabel García has referred to the information already published on the item with surplus, 3.2 million euros, which will work on the firm, the median and The lighting of Paseo Alfonso XIII, and the Alameda de San Antón;

The rest will go to shock programs for the arrangement of sidewalks and gardens throughout the municipality.

Regarding the works of regional ownership, García has lamented the lack of willingness of the Community to invest in Cartagena, although he has not specified how the local government is trying to reverse this lack of will, and has asked citizens to take advantage of its influence in the Government to get it.

Cartagena Bus Station

The Municipal Citizens Group has also asked for explanations for the deficiencies presented by the Cartagena bus station and about the state of relations between the City of Cartagena, the company that manages the terminal, and the Autonomous Community so that the latter Grant the necessary authorization to be able to undertake the reform that it requires.

Councilor Isabel Garcia has responded that the works are for the concessionaire, who are seeking European subsidies, and that a group of students of the UPCT is preparing a project to reform the station to be exhibited next June.

Siphon Road

Lastly, Manuel Padín asked whether the municipal government has completed the technical project to channel the waters that cause flooding in the area of ​​the Siphon Road, and when will be undertaken the works of the second phase.

MC Councilor Francisco Calderón has replied that the situation is studied by the Executive and have concluded that there is an integral project due to deficiencies in the project of the first phase promoted by the previous Government of the Popular Party .

According to Calderón, the works will begin when the land is municipal, and the necessary budget reserve is available.

Source: Ciudadanos Cartagena